Music

I ♥ music with all of my heart.

I don't know what I would do without music. I would be completely lost if it wasn't for music. Music makes me happy and fills my soul in a way that is impossible to describe.

I've decided that instead of me blabbing on, I'm going to show you quotes I've found about what music means to others. They say it a lot more profoundly than I ever could.

• Music washes away from the soul the dust of everyday life. ~Berthold Auerbach

• Without music life would be a mistake. ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

• Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons. You will find it is to the soul what a water bath is to the body. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes

• Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my back to loneliness. ~Maya Angelou, Gather Together in My Name

• Were it not for music, we might in these days say, the Beautiful is dead. ~Benjamin Disraeli

• Music is what feelings sound like. ~Author Unknown

• Music is the poetry of the air. ~Richter

• If I were to begin life again, I would devote it to music. It is the only cheap and unpunished rapture upon earth. ~Sydney Smith

• There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William P. Merrill

• If in the after life there is not music, we will have to import it. ~Doménico Cieri Estrada

• Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it. ~Henry David Thoreau

• I have my own particular sorrows, loves, delights; and you have yours. But sorrow, gladness, yearning, hope, love, belong to all of us, in all times and in all places. Music is the only means whereby we feel these emotions in their universality. ~H.A. Overstreet

• My idea is that there is music in the air, music all around us; the world is full of it, and you simply take as much as you require. ~Edward Elgar

• Life can't be all bad when for ten dollars you can buy all the Beethoven sonatas and listen to them for ten years. ~William F. Buckley, Jr.

• Music cleanses the understanding; inspires it, and lifts it into a realm which it would not reach if it were left to itself. ~Henry Ward Beecher

• You are the music while the music lasts. ~T.S. Eliot

• Music is the universal language of mankind. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Outre-Mer

• He who hears music, feels his solitude peopled at once. ~Robert Browning

• Music expresses that which cannot be said and on which it is impossible to be silent. ~Victor Hugo

• Music has been my playmate, my lover, and my crying towel. ~Buffy Sainte-Marie

• Music is an outburst of the soul. ~Frederick Delius

• Music is the art which is most nigh to tears and memory. ~Oscar Wilde

• Music is what life sounds like. ~Eric Olson

• Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate. ~Arnold Bennett

• Music expresses feeling and thought, without language; it was below and before speech, and it is above and beyond all words. ~Robert G. Ingersoll

• Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends. ~Alphonse de Lamartine

• When words leave off, music begins. ~Heinrich Heine

• Truly to sing, that is a different breath. ~Rainer Maria Rilke

• What passion cannot music raise and quell! ~John Dryden

• Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die. ~Paul Simon

• Music produces a kind of pleasure which human nature cannot do without. ~Confucius

• Life is one grand, sweet song, so start the music. ~Ronald Reagan

• Music is the medicine of the breaking heart. ~Leigh Hunt

• Music, once admitted to the soul, becomes a sort of spirit, and never dies. ~Edward George Bulwer-Lytton

• After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music. ~Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

• Music is love in search of a word. ~Sidney Lanie

• It is incontestable that music induces in us a sense of the infinite and the contemplation of the invisible. ~Victor de LaPrade

• Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life. ~Jean Paul Richter

• Music is well said to be the speech of angels. ~Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"